The beginner's guide to Legend of the Galactic Heroes
This post is in order because until my entire f-list starts watching this best anime ever made I find it my responsibility to keep the world informed. So if you have been brainwashed by my marketing attempt and are interested to watch now or some time later, here is the guide which you will need (that I wished I had when I started).
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I actually have a feeling Kircheis was suggesting a 3some when he was talking about Yang with Reinhard on that bench XDDD
Ah, and OFF topic, I just watched episode 5 again and noticed that Kircheis was really discreet about his feelings towards Annerose. He made a point at leaving the table the minute Reinhard went to get the wine because it was inappropriate for him to hold a conversation without Reinhard. I really really love his discipline and you'll just miss it all if you're not paying attention to those gestures. It tells you no matter how much he loves Annerose, he is never going to go *there* because his loyalty and friendship towards Reinhard goes beyond his own pitiful feelings. You get that with Hilda even, she won't answer Reinhard in some situations because it's not appropriate for her post. That woman is so strong and wise and appropriate and OMG the shit she had to put up with given the Kaiser's unstable state of mind is phenomenal. It's moments like these that makes me watch the second or third round because you were so busy trying to understand and read subs that you miss body languages and signs with hidden meanings there. I really admire the anime team and I don't understand those who find this anime overrated. It's just so packed with meaningful details and it's consistent in all 110 episodes. The last 10 episodes or so are the worst. You could come back to it the 10th time, discovered this little gesture you missed that makes you cry over it for about 3 days.
should be made to watch this anime non-stop from 6 years of age to 16, and discuss it in every possible way.
I agree actually. An episode a month is about right given the time it takes to pick up all the stuff in there to discuss. We'd all understand the cost of war, of stupidity, of ignorance, of arrogance, of laziness etc. It's really cruel just how much he stresses the flaws and stupidity of the human race from start to finish. Even Reinhard who was created to be this perfect ruler was brought down by so many factors just to illustrate it. Its easy to think it's a flaw on the series that he gets weaker and more helpless as you go along, but if you look at it from the bigger picture you realize it was all intentional. Reinhard has the right "image" to wind people around his fingers to be the ruler of the universe and the center of it, but he actually gets there not by his own talent or achievements, but by the hands of those loyal to him. I guess you could say it's still his accomplishment but I think the point Tanaka Yoshiki was trying to make, is as Yang said, people as a whole have a tendency to follow someone great, not an ideal. And that, is precisely the problem with the world, isn't it?
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Which in retrospect makes me LMAO, because I absolutely see Yang as either asexual or simply too lazy to bother with sex :D So him participating in a threesome? Pfft, never gonna happen unless the other two guys are doing all the work while he lies on his back, stares at the ceiling, and philosophies about something or other. (And then Kircheis looks up from where he's blowing Yang, smiles at him with those huge innocent eyes and dazzling smile, and comments softly on whatever philosophical shit Yang just said, before going back to licking his cock. And they go on like that all through the whole thing, including Reinhard curtly but politely disagreeing with Yang as he puts Yang's feet on his - Reinhard's - shoulders and unceremoniously starts plowing his ass... BY THE NAME OF ODIN, WHAT IS THIS ANIME DOING TO MY BRAIN D: !???! )
It tells you no matter how much he loves Annerose, he is never going to go *there* because his loyalty and friendship towards Reinhard goes beyond his own pitiful feelings.
She wouldn't accept it anyway, for the exact same reason: Reinhard comes first. She "gave" Kircheis to Reinhard all those years ago, long before she could imagine she might one day regret it, but she would never come back on it. She would send Kircheis straight back to Reinhard's side if he said anything. Which, uh, is rather beautifully tragic when I look at it this way =_=
It's really cruel just how much he stresses the flaws and stupidity of the human race from start to finish.
It's cruel, yes, but, well, it's his whole point, isn't it?
I guess you could say it's still his accomplishment but I think the point Tanaka Yoshiki was trying to make, is as Yang said, people as a whole have a tendency to follow someone great, not an ideal. And that, is precisely the problem with the world, isn't it?
Yep. Instead of knowing what they want and fighting for it, most people will just glomp onto whichever person dazzles them most at the moment. The end result is that there's no sustained direction, no actual goal, and so, unavoidably, everything goes to shit sooner or later.
Mind you, it's not like this is any kind of secret message or anything: it's right there from the very, very beginning. Yang became an admiral because he accidentally dazzled people all the time, starting all the way back when he became "the hero of El Facil" for simply doing what he considered his job both as an army officer and a human being.
Right from the beginning, Yang has accidentally become one of those people the masses glomp onto, and he spends his entire time trying to tell them that this is a Very Bad Idea. So, yeah, quite an obvious theme throughout the series :D
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Can I print out this whole delicious discussion for under my pillow???
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